LINK Suite of Tools

LINKProcess ™	DEA offers a proven process for approaching business analysis, enterprise architecture analysis, and requirements analysis. We always use this process as part of our engagements, but we can also provide LINKProcess™ for your internal use and tailor it to meet your organization’s particular needs. The process provides a foundation for gathering, documenting, and maintaining models and definitions; it includes step-by-step task descriptions, customizations for tools such as System Architect, Visual Basic macros to generate formatted deliverables, and RequirementsLINK™ to house deliverables on the web.
RequirementsLINK ™	is a project-focused tool that allows you to post information on a web site for review, collaboration, approval and tracking. For example, if the team has gathered application, data and security requirements in models and text, these are extracted by DEA’s transfer program and turned into requirements that can be viewed and shared by team members no matter their location. Review cycle management allows for commenting and approvals; change history on each requirement; and tracking of each requirement from vision to execution.
EnterpriseLINK ™	is a web-based tool intended to support your enterprise architecture needs. It can be organized to support business information (strategy, business area missions, business processes and products), data information (meta data and tracking to physical implementation), and/or technology information (applications, platforms, and networks). It serves as a central knowledge asset management repository for your organization – whether that organization is the data architecture group, IT, or the business.

"Your ability to customize the tools to meet the needs of a diversified set of customer project requirements is extremely valuable and unique."

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